First day of shooting: FIREDANCERS

On Saturday we shot some fire dancers. Fire dancing is so hot right now.

Here's some footage cut together from our two T2i's, straight from the cameras- no color grading.

Click here to watch at youtube in HD, or watch below in SD (the S stands for Sucky).

Fight- Camera motion test

We wanted to test the T2i's rolling shutter effect with some fast motion, so producer Josh and VFX director Malcolm push their fighting skills to the limit. The results are Super Satisfactory.

Holy crap!

The Canon T2i looks like a million bucks. And it's under $1000!

I'm Matt St. Charles, director of photography for the new narrative feature film* Flea (written/directed by the multi-talented Suza Lambert Bowser). We're shooting with twin T2i's; 2nd camera op/VFX supervisor Malcolm DeSoto (so hot right now- his work knocks my eyeball socks right off of their sockets!) just took the second freshly ordered camera home today to familiarize. I could tell when he held the sleek Canon body in his hands, the gears began to turn. We're going to have some fun with this camera, that's for sure.

The two big selling points for me are: 1) Shallow Depth of Field: when you can blur out the background so much it looks nearly like 35mm film, HECK YEAH, I don't have to finish this sentence; and 2) Amazing Low Light Sensitivity: open that prime up to f1.8 and crank this baby up to 1600iso, I don't even care! The noise is barely there, and even then, it's that rare noise that's actually nice!

*We hope to fool everyone:

"You say film, but is it? Is it really?"

"You tell me." (cues up full 1080p 24p clip on HDTV)

"Holy crap! That's 35mm for sure! You must've spent zillions!"

"POW!"

That's right.